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Calif. Bills Would Reform Litigation Funding, Client Recruiting
Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.
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Health Litigator Rejoins Holland & Knight From In-House Role
A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney has returned to the firm in Jacksonville, Florida, after a 10-year stint in-house at Florida Blue, a subsidiary of GuideWell Mutual Holding Corp.
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Biotech Investor Blames Pierce Atwood For Messy Asset Sale
A Ukrainian billionaire who was recently ordered to pay other investors in a failed genetic testing company more than $1.8 million in damages is blaming the Pierce Atwood LLP lawyers who advised him on what a court later found to be a "fundamentally unfair" forced asset sale.
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Hicks Johnson Trial Lawyer Launches Litigation Boutique
After more than 15 years of practicing at firms large and small, a former partner at Texas trial boutique Hicks Johnson PLLC has launched an Austin-based litigation boutique, Yegparian PLLC, with a focus on commercial disputes, particularly in the technology and construction spaces.
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NJ Judge Tosses Ex-Elections Chief's Suit Over Ouster
A New Jersey state judge has tossed the ex-Garden State elections chief's suit against former Gov. Phil Murphy and members of the governor's administration over efforts to oust him.
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Latham Hires Desmarais IP Partner In DC
Latham & Wakins LLP has hired a Desmarais LLP partner in D.C., who helped represent GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in an ongoing infringement suit against Moderna Inc., the firm announced Tuesday.
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Deals Rebound As Lit Finance Finds Footing After Shakeout
Litigation finance deal volume rebounded modestly in 2025 after two years of decline following an industrywide shakeout, while BigLaw pulled back from tapping into litigation financing opportunities, according to a new report.
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Deals In Jackson Walker-Judge Affair A 'Dilemma,' Judge Says
A Texas federal judge ordered three of Jackson Walker LLP's former bankruptcy clients Tuesday to explain by next month what would happen to money from potential vacaturs or sanctions against the law firm if the estates close after their contested deals get approved.
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IP Atty Appeals Order Requiring OK To File WDTX Patent Suits
Intellectual property attorney William Ramey is asking the Federal Circuit to overturn a Texas district judge's sanctions order requiring him to seek the court's permission before filing patent suits in the future, saying the judge relied on the wrong evidence in finding the attorney failed to conduct presuit investigations.
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King & Spalding Adds Winston & Strawn IP Litigator In SF
The parade of Winston & Strawn LLP litigators moving to King & Spalding LLP continues with a patent litigator being the latest to make the move, becoming a partner in the San Francisco office.
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NJ Justices Probe Daniel's Law Notification Requirement
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether a notice requirement in the state's judicial privacy law is enough to ensure that any person or entity that can be held liable under the law acted with negligence.
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Goodwin Launches OC Office With 3 Ex-Jones Day Partners
Goodwin Procter LLP has launched its first Orange County office with a trio of powerhouse cybersecurity and privacy attorneys from Jones Day, marking yet another expansion of its West Coast footprint, with existing offices in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and the Bay Area, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Atty Seeks To Boot Ogletree From Microsoft Bias Suit
An attorney who claimed Microsoft fired her out of pregnancy discrimination sought to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from representing the tech giant, telling a Washington federal judge the move is necessary because the firm also backs a client she's fighting in another case.
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Indiana Firm Drops Quintairos Prieto 'Mass Exodus' Suit
Less than a month after suing Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA for allegedly causing a "mass exodus" of attorneys, Indiana-based Kopka Pinkus Dolin PC has chosen to dismiss the matter, according to a recent court filing.
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2nd Circ. Kills Contempt Order In Starbucks False Ad Suit
A New York federal judge overstepped in holding an attorney in contempt for filing what the lower court deemed a "meritless" false advertising lawsuit over the amount of potassium in a Starbucks coffee flavor, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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Hall Booth Smith Expands To New Mexico With Partner Trio
Months after announcing the opening of a Philadelphia office, Hall Booth Smith PC revealed its latest expansion, opening an office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, following the hire of three partners from a local firm.
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Connell Foley Adds Harwood Lloyd Employment Veteran In NJ
Connell Foley LLP has brought on a labor and employment expert blending expertise in both litigation and employment law counseling as a partner from Harwood Lloyd LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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NYU Report Privilege Beats Ex-Prosecutor's Defamation Suit
A former Philadelphia prosecutor can't sue New York University, its law school and a legal scholar over a report that cited efforts to undo a murder case she'd prosecuted, with a federal judge finding New York's "fair report privilege" defeated her defamation claim.
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Seward & Kissel Lands McDermott Atty As Litigation Leader
Seward & Kissel LLP announced Tuesday that it has added the former co-leader of McDermott Will & Schulte's investment management regulatory and enforcement practice to chair its litigation and investigations group.
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Ga. Atty Disbarred For Cutting Client Contact, Keeping Funds
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday disbarred an attorney found to have violated the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct in three client matters, allegedly cutting off communication with clients without terminating representation and failing to release settlement funds in his possession despite multiple court orders.
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Eversheds Sutherland Adds 18th Litigator In 7 Months
Eversheds Sutherland has hired a former Winston & Strawn LLP partner in Washington, D.C., who spent almost 19 years before her last role with Squire Patton Boggs, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Ex-Crowell & Moring E-Discovery Co-Chair Rejoins Pillsbury
The former co-chair of the e-discovery and information management practice at Crowell & Moring LLP joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to serve as head of e-discovery consulting and counsel in its litigation group, according to a LinkedIn post Monday.
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Winston & Strawn Sanctioned For Trying To 'Make Up Facts'
A California federal judge sanctioned Winston & Strawn LLP on Monday for making up facts and otherwise misrepresenting the record in contract litigation over its client's app being removed from Apple's platform, then separately dismissed the case on the merits.
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Trump Admin Wants Student Loan Forgiveness Suits Tossed
The Trump administration on Monday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a pair of lawsuits challenging a change to eligibility requirements for student loan forgiveness, calling the potential repercussions from the new rule "speculative."
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Firms Fight Discovery In Sanctions Bid Following Eletson Row
Greenberg Traurig LLP and Reed Smith LLP have each urged a New York federal court to deny discovery requests by Levona Holdings as the company pursues sanctions against the firms following the court's vacatur of a $102 million arbitral award found to have been the product of fraud, calling the requests "intrusive" and "improper."
Expert Analysis
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.